title: [The role of the hospital social work in the integration of health and social services. Survey on the social work at "Policlinico Umberto I Hospital"].
abstract: The research deals with the work done by the Social Services of the "Policlinico Umberto I of Rome" through the analysis of 814 social records and the data taken from them. These records refer to all the cases treated by the Social Work in the year 2008 and these cases represent 1.9% of the total admissions (regular admissions, DH admissions, infectious diseases A and B, DH admissions for the prevention and cure of liver damages caused by alcohol). The original objective was that of doing an in depth research of the activities done by the hospital's Social Services, through an analysis of the data, with the goal of underlining which role it has taken in the connection and the integration of the local, public Social health services and belonging to the third sector. The study was articulated in two essential phases: The first was collecting the data, taken from the social records that were present in the paper archive of the services, divided into three specific sectors, personal data, social data and the operations preformed. The second phase was elaborating the data during which the data obtained was organized in survey tables and then calculated statistically. The research shows how the relationship operation/execution time configures the activity of the hospital's Social Work as focused on emergency situations, and nevertheless as the hospital services takes the role of linking the hospital and the social health services system for the continuity of the social health welfare of the discharged patient.
authors.affiliation: Assistente Sociale Cooperativa Sociale Arciconfraternita del SS Sacramento e di S. Trifone, Roma.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Iosa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mazzotta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Renzini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dal Maso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital; D055815:Young Adult